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Shawn Fanning Interview
peter303 writes "The Wall Street Journal (via MSNBC) interviewed Shawn Fanning, the founder of Napster.
Shawn talks about the end of Napster and his personal plans."
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Ummm...and risk getting bombed?
The law of excluded middle : Either I'm foo or I'm foobar
You mean Texas?
But, far more importantly, mad propz to the WSJ for knowing the difference between "less" and "fewer".
The "use 'fewer' for counting, 'less' for measurements" rule is really pretty obscure and useless. Only the truly pedantic care about that rule. On the other hand...
theres no other explanation for that, right?
The apostrophe rule for contractions IS an important, useful rule.
Sometimes it's best to just let stupid people be stupid.
I like how MSNBC had the story title on their tech front page:
"Napster Boy, Interrupted"
Man that would piss me off if I was him and people are still calling me "Napster Boy".
("Hey, Napster Boy, why don't you go download me some mp3's?! Ha ha ha ha! Did you hear that, fellas? I just called Fanny Napster boy! ha ha ha!")
If you had nuts on your chin, would they be chin nuts?
The apostrophe rule for contractions IS an important, useful rule.
Your right about that.
Evil is the money of root.
Gee, after the WSJ learned that the dude didn't make the millions they thought he did, the interview kinda petered out, didn't it? Like "Move along. Nothing to see here!" being called out in the middle of a circus.
Bhudda-lite
(Whatever)
Are we not missing the irony of nitpicking apostrophes and less / fewer in a sentence that contains the phrase "mad propz" ??
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. -- Carl Sagan
Metallica jumped the shark with Napster, no doubt about it.
Adopting your own brother... that must have been a fun little family outing. Sounds like Shawn has been living a somewhat hellish existence.
Perhaps he could market this somewhat like the "Osbornes".
Business Model:
1-Dysfunctional Family. Check.
2-Famous Member of Family. Check.
3-Good Market for Reality TV shows. Check.
4-?
5-Profit!
Shawn if you're reading this, I want you to know that my real feelings are that you've done a good thing by adopting your brother. Reading between the silent lines I get the feeling that he was being damaged back East.
Their is a really funny post above this one. The ones who wrote it, there obviously geniuses. They're is clearly a need to mod this up. ;)
m00.
Couldn't really let this topic pass without linking to the story:
RIAA Sues Radio Stations For Giving Away Free Music.
Are we not missing the irony of nitpicking apostrophes and less / fewer in a sentence that contains the phrase "mad propz" ??
No kidding. EVERYONE knows that "mad" has is spelled "madd" in this context.
"pr0pz" is an accepted alternate spelling to "propz", as well.
S